Question

I have a view-scoped bean that implements Serializable, and a UIComponent passed in via binding.

@ManagedBean
@ViewScoped
public class ViewScopedBean implements Serializable {
   UIComponent form;
   /// ... 
}

<h:form binding="#{viewScopedBean.form}"> ... 

The UIComponent is not serializable and thus breaking session restore.

What’s the best practice here?

Should I just mark the UIComponents as transient? Or is it bad practice to use binding= to anything but a request-scoped bean?

I’m using Glassfish 3.1.1, Mojarra 2.1.3 and PrimeFaces 2.2.

Answer 1

Accepting @BalusC’s suggestion to find another way to solve problem without binding.